From 98962465ed9e6ea99c38e0af63fe1dcb5a79dc25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jon Hunter Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:45:10 -0500 Subject: nohz: Prevent clocksource wrapping during idle The dynamic tick allows the kernel to sleep for periods longer than a single tick, but it does not limit the sleep time currently. In the worst case the kernel could sleep longer than the wrap around time of the time keeping clock source which would result in losing track of time. Prevent this by limiting it to the safe maximum sleep time of the current time keeping clock source. The value is calculated when the clock source is registered. [ tglx: simplified the code a bit and massaged the commit msg ] Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter Cc: John Stultz LKML-Reference: <1250617512-23567-2-git-send-email-jon-hunter@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/timekeeping.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/time/timekeeping.c') diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c index 96b3f0dfa5dc..5d4d4239a0aa 100644 --- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c +++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c @@ -477,6 +477,17 @@ int timekeeping_valid_for_hres(void) return ret; } +/** + * timekeeping_max_deferment - Returns max time the clocksource can be deferred + * + * Caller must observe xtime_lock via read_seqbegin/read_seqretry to + * ensure that the clocksource does not change! + */ +u64 timekeeping_max_deferment(void) +{ + return timekeeper.clock->max_idle_ns; +} + /** * read_persistent_clock - Return time from the persistent clock. * -- cgit v1.2.2